Reply to Comment by Philippe Baveye on "physicochemical controls on adsorbed water film thickness in unsaturated geological media"

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84870272030     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012433     Document Type: Note

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